One of the Danish Presidency’s ‘prestige projects’ appears to have hit a wall with other EU politicians. The directive on energy efficiency was designed to help all EU countries reduce their primary energy…

The trade journal Danish Police has warned that new organised-crime groups are taking root in Denmark and Scandinavia and exploiting illegal workers. The Police have now announced a crackdown in collaboration with the…

Danish diplomats have been warned to take extra precautions in Kabul after two US Army officers were killed in the interior ministry in the Afghan capital. Denmark’s Ambassador in the war-torn country, René…

The right-leaning Liberal Alliance has seized on local government’s call for wide reaching reforms to get people off social benefits and into the labour market and intends to introduce them as a joint…

Danish shipping and oil giant, A.P. Moller-Maersk (APM), emerged from 2011 with a net profit of DKK18.1bn ($3.4bn), slightly higher than projected but far lower than the DKK28bn ($4.9bn) of the previous year….

Politics / Economy In a rather embarrassing climbdown, the government dropped plans to impose a congestion fee on all cars entering Copenhagen, one of its key campaign issues. To compensate, and placate the…

POLITICA/ECONOMIA Tomando una decisión muy embarazosa el gobierno decidió eliminar su plan de crear un anillo de circunvalación  con tarifa de congestión que se aplicaría a todo vehículo que ingresara al centro de…

The National Association of Local Authorities in Denmark, KL, (Kommunernes Landsforening), the mouthpiece of local government, has called for wide-reaching reforms of the welfare state. In Sunday’s Jyllands-Posten, KL Chairman Jan Trøjberg warns…

The National Association of Local Authorities’ (KL) call for welfare reforms has created further division within the government. The Social Democrats’ labour market spokesman Leif Lahn Jensen said his party fully supports the…

A further 35,000 people have been added to the 90,000 people who were claiming emergency cash benefits before the crisis hit four years ago, costing the state an extra DKK6bn a year, new…